Robert Kowalski: My son lives in San Francisco, so I’ve been exposed many times to what’s
called dim sum.
Raena Morgan: I’ve done it, yes.
Robert Kowalski: D-i-m-s-u-m. Dim Sum. Wonderful Chinese habit, they do this typically
on Sunday for brunch’ where you sit down and they bring the little bitty
plates. There’ll be perhaps just a little bite of this or that or the other thing.
The cart comes along, and you’ll say “Yeah, I’d like that.” You get it, you
eat it and the plates then pile up in different colors and the waitress at the
end counts the plates—the white ones, the blue ones and here’s your bill.
Now; you’re having little bits at a time. This is the beauty of Chinese
eating. They eat frequently and little bits at a time. So, if by taking that
dim sum approach, on a regular basis throughout the day, if you were to
consume, let’s say, a hundred calories worth of a little of this a little of
that, a little peanut butter on a stalk of celery, enough to give you a
hundred calories, a piece of fruit, and you can even count that glass of
wine with dinner as being a hundred—because about 90 calories for a
glass of either red or white wine.
There’s been research done and there’s actually a program at UCLA—
University of California in Los Angeles. They take people in and they give
them a packet of powder that they mix into water. It’s a hundred calories.
They suggest that they take 8 or 9 of these throughout the day. You can
mix it with a whole 8 ounces of water and drink it as sort of a shake or
smoothie. But you can also do it with half the water and turn that into sort
of a pudding. Well, this is very effective and people come from miles to
participate in the UCLA program. Ultimately, they start replacing these
little shakes with real food. So, they start saying have a few nuts worth a
hundred calories, have this for a hundred calories, till you’re up to that 8
or 900 point and you’re still losing weight. Then, they get into a point
where they’re starting to maintain the weight, and you get your caloric
intake gradually raised. What you’re doing is making a permanent lifestyle
change and that’s what really is necessary to reduce blood pressure by
weight loss.
Raena Morgan: Well, thank you very much, Bob.
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